TGW wrote:Pass x 10 on getting Cousins. Bad attitude, inefficient, and a terrible defender. What does the supposed "potential" matter if he'll never reach it? This is the Wizards people...there is no reason why to think Cousins would all of sudden become good in a Wizards uniform.

He and Wall were best friends, if anyone can try and calm him down its Wall

I feel sorry for Wall—people literally think he's the calvary that can same this terrible franchise.

Wall can't calm that guy down. Cousins has been doing this nonsense since college.

If the Wiz want to trade for a player that may be available, it should be Kevin Love. That guy is a baller. He's not playing well this year, due to an injury, but I have much more faith in Love regaining form than Cousins actually becoming a good basketball player or a person in general.

i don't think kevin love is on the trading block... if he is, i bet he's pushing to get traded to lakers for gasol... he did play college ball at ucla... gasol is more than anything the wizards can offer even at this point...

i do agree with you that there is no way wall can calm down cousins.... wall has not shown any degree of leadership or maturity himself... i think the only way cousins become better as a player is if he gets traded to a lakers/spurs/miami/okc where he knows he's not the top dog and he has to behave... just look at andrew bynum... as much as he was 'hurt' a lot... he couldn't pull the bs he is pulling now with the 76ers when he played with kobe... now he's just this decade's version of eddie curry...

miller31time wrote:What are we to assume the asking price for Cousins would be?

I'm assuming our 2013 1st rounder would have to be included?

Absolutely....considering Cousins was the 5th overall pick himself.

If that was the price, I probably wouldn't pull the trigger. Not unless that pick had substantial protection... at least top 7. Cousins is a major attitude problem and he has already burned 2-1/4 years of his 4 year rookie deal. The Kings don't get a mulligan.

Only way i trade for cousins is if walls healthy. Based on there UK connection i feel that wall has the potential to hold cousins accountable and that cousins may respect him. Still doubt it. Some combination of a protected 1st, vesely, booker, cap relief.

Buzz: Bynum is still experiencing left knee pain that has kept him from making his debut with the Sixers, but is hopeful he can return sometime in 2013. He becomes a free agent at the end of the season and was expected to command a five-year contract approaching $100 million. His health problems threaten to substantially reduce that number.

One NBA general manager said the Sixers have been making trade inquiries about adding a starting caliber center.

"They got to be a little panicked now," one GM said. "They could get a really interesting deal for him. I could see them doing that."

Derrick Williams: Minnesota Timberwolves, 21, F

Contract status: Making $4.8 million in second year of rookie deal.

Buzz: Williams has had a disappointing career in Minnesota after being selected second overall in the 2011 draft. The highest draft choice in franchise history has been earning DNP-CDs or short-minute stints under coach Rick Adelman. Both sides would be happy with a move.

"They will move him in a heartbeat if they could," one rival team executive said. "I don't think the coaches are that high on him. You have to get something for him now because the longer he sits, the more people think he can't play."

Could we get in on a deal that brings MIN/PHI together? I could see "Krazy Kahn" taking a chance on Bynum (he already did with Brandon Roy). And since his deal is expiring, there's not much risk. Philly might take a chance on DWill being the bench scorer they've lacked, and might also be interested in Okafor as a stop-gap in the middle.

But that is a pretty good haul for mostly the wrong part of Nene's career. The 2015 pick could be a good asset. Brooks and Beal play the same position, but I think Brooks is tall enough to play some 3 guard sets. Humphries is under-rated and you could argue 80 games of Humphries is about equal to 60 games of Nene.

I think the obvious deal to consider here is Nene for Bynum. Philly gets a borderline all star caliber center who will help them this year and beyond, we get a potentially dominant center but also chronically injured head case who we would have to resign.

Tough call, but as we have learned, if you don't pull the trigger on acquiring dominant potentially franchise level talent, you end up regretting it.

Anyone think it suspicious/coincidence that the FA trade market opened today and Nene was inactive tonight as well?? Wouldnt put it past EG to trade the only decent player we got.. Then next year when Walls healthy he can blame us not having a C as the reason we stink again.. Makes EG/TL sense anyway, no?

I still want us to be the ones to take the chance on Derrick Williams. He needs to go to a team where he can preferably start and get significant minutes to show he can play. And no better team to do that with than the Wizards.I would trade Crawford, Vesley, Ariza and a lotto protected 1st for Williams, Barea

I know most of our fans don't seem too high on Williams anymore like we did on draft night last year... but I still wanna take a chance on him.

Earth2Ted wrote:I think the obvious deal to consider here is Nene for Bynum. Philly gets a borderline all star caliber center who will help them this year and beyond, we get a potentially dominant center but also chronically injured head case who we would have to resign.

Tough call, but as we have learned, if you don't pull the trigger on acquiring dominant potentially franchise level talent, you end up regretting it.

The Sixers would have to throw in numerous first round picks for me to be interested in that deal.

Bynum is injured, may not play this year, and is a free agent at the end of the season. That means the Wizards would be getting a rental on a player who might not even play this season.

The only thing of value the Wizards would be getting in this deal is the right to sign Bynum to one extra season that other teams can't. It has some value, but not enough to trade Nene for.

Additionally, Bynum will probably get Max contract offers in the off season. Considering that Bynum has only played in ~69.3% of the games from his second season on, which works out to about 57 games a season, I don't want the Wizards giving Bynum a max contract. If Bynum does miss the entire season, those numbers drop to playing in ~62% of the games from his second season on, which works out to about 51 games a season.

Bynum is simply injured too often to be worth max contract money, and that doesn't even take into account that he is a head case.

I'm not against acquiring him, but I wouldn't give up a pick if I'm taking back the extra year of salary from Barea's contract. Also, I think it's pretty clear that DWill's future is as a tweener stretch 4 and not at a full-time SF (a la Michael Beasley).